Head of Support, AMER
Company: Notion
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: April 2, 2026
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Job Description:
About Us: Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your life’s
work. In today's world of endless apps and tabs, Notion provides
one place for teams to get everything done, seamlessly connecting
docs, notes, projects, calendar, and email—with AI built in to find
answers and automate work. Millions of users, from individuals to
large organizations like Toyota, Figma, and OpenAI, love Notion for
its flexibility and choose it because it helps them save time and
money. In-person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture. We
require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays,
Tuesdays, and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams
or positions may require additional in-office workdays. About the
Role: The Head of Support, AMER will design and own the strategy
for leading and scaling a high-impact team of technical and general
support agents across two hubs in AMER. As the senior CX leader
in-region, you will set the vision, define the operating model, and
drive execution in close partnership with Global CX, AMER CS and
Sales Leadership and the Regional GMs. You will shape and govern
the regional support strategy end to end, ensuring it aligns with
our global standards while reflecting the unique needs of AMER
customers. You will collaborate closely with the APAC and EMEA
Heads of Support to define and maintain a cohesive global operating
cadence. You will champion and accelerate the growth of CX within
our AMER region, including leading cross-functional initiatives
that elevate both the agent and customer experience. The successful
candidate will bring extensive experience leading with data,
entering and scaling new AMER markets, and developing managers and
senior ICs into a consistently high-performing, values-driven
organization. This role might be required to travel across NAMER.
What You'll Achieve: Design and own the long-term vision, strategy,
and roadmap for Support in AMER, and build the organizational
structure and leadership bench to deliver against it Lead and
develop a distributed support organization, ensuring clear
accountability, effective communication, and strong engagement
across locations Manage and optimize technical and non-technical
resources in AMER, ensuring consistent attainment of SLAs and KPIs
across both technical and general support teams Define, set, and
continuously refine quarterly and annual targets; partner with
sales, success, product, and engineering leadership to drive
sustained performance and continuous improvement in the region
Architect and execute our upmarket strategy in AMER, including
developing and scaling Enterprise and Premium Support-specific
strategies, processes, and policies Maintain and refine the rhythm
of the business and global operating cadence in partnership with
other market leads and revenue operations, ensuring consistency in
information sharing, forecasting, and reporting Expand AMER support
to new offices, leading workforce management, implementation and
establishing hiring profiles, career ladders, etc. Represent the
Voice of the Customer and influence Product & Engineering roadmap,
working closely with User Operations Identify, scope, and drive
innovative cross-functional programs that solve ambiguous and
open-ended agent and customer problems, from discovery through
execution and measurement Provide executive-level oversight of
major incidents and participate in the global on-call rotation to
cover incidents, ensuring high-quality communication and
follow-through with customers and stakeholders Act as a senior CX
point of contact for customer sales conversations, escalations,
complaints, etc. as well as for internal stakeholders conversations
Skills You'll Need to Bring: 8–10 years of progressive leadership
experience building, scaling, and leading high-performing technical
support organizations, including leaders and ICs at various stages
of their careers 4 years owning and leading the AMER market within
a global CX or Support organization Demonstrated ability to design,
implement, and scale robust cross-functional processes spanning
go-to-market and technical teams Proven track record of using data
and market insights to shape strategy, influence senior
stakeholders, and adapt operations to represent the unique
variation in the AMER market Ability to independently own, scope,
and drive complex, multi-quarter initiatives while also delegating
and empowering leaders and team members to deliver results Strong
executive presence with the ability to influence and align
technical and non-technical audiences of all levels through clear
narratives and data-driven recommendations Deep user-centric
mindset with a passion for designing experiences that materially
improve customer quality of life Strong analytical, debugging, and
problem-solving skills, with experience interrogating data and
systems to identify and resolve root causes Experience designing
customer and ticket journeys spanning from Tier 0 - AI generated
self-serve support to highest point of escalation Ability to
analyze server and client application logs and identify the root
cause of errors Advanced data reporting and data analytics skills,
with experience defining and monitoring the metrics that matter at
regional and global levels Ability to guide and coach teams to
balance user expectations with policies, compliance boundaries, and
business constraints You don’t need to be an AI expert, but you’re
curious and willing to adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver
better results Nice to Haves: Experience launching and scaling a
SaaS product in new markets within a global company Strong
knowledge of Linux, APIs, NoSQL, MySQL and similar open source
technologies Knowledge of Single Sign-on including OAuth, SAML, and
SCIM Experience writing or reviewing scripts using one or more of
the following languages: Python, Java, Javascript, or Typescript
Familiarity with Notion as a product and platform Knowledge of
AI-native Support tools and genAI chatbots We hire talented and
passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our
global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our
customers. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience
doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job
description, we still encourage you to apply. If you’re a builder
at heart, share our company values, and enthusiastic about making
software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you. Notion is
proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate
in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color,
religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy,
childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status,
ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information,
veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation,
or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion
considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent
with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also
committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified
individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job
application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation
due to a disability, please let your recruiter know. Notion is
committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation,
equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will
be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and
complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may
vary from the range provided below. For roles based in San
Francisco, the estimated base salary range for this role is
$220,000-260,000 per year. By clicking “Submit Application”, I
understand and agree that Notion and its affiliates and
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